I had the 700w and I got sick of the lack of memory, instability, horrible ActiveSync and poor usability. So I sold it and got a 700p. For me, PalmOS just works (others clearly have stability problems with PalmOS, but my 650 and 700p have been rock solid).

Possibly I will switch to the next (W). I learned never to buy the first of anything. Ofcourse the first W(700) is going to have alot of faults compared to something tried and tested for years, comparing only with the Palm Treo. I think the W will overtake the P eventually, just not now. For me, its the P

I like my w very much, as most people say though, all it really needs is more memory, I can actually handle the screen res, but the memory just... well it just sucks! I remember the old days with WM2003 and previous WM products where you had that memory slider, I would love to have the slider now, I have almost 45megs free of storage and on a reset 11 megs of ram that goes down to about 6 or 7, with that slider I could give it another 20 megs and I wouldn't have to worry about PIE shutting down when I use Media Player! I look forward to the next version of the w that has the much needed memory.... ok I am done ranting!

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The 700w is FATALLY flawed due to the amount of ram that the system takes to run wm5. Being the same hardware as the 700p, the palm variant is ALWAYS going to run better as it's better in it's ram usage. The wm5 version slowly leaks memory till it's got 4-5 megs ram available and shortly after crashes... Palm is just pathetic lately in their design efforts.

I like my w very much, as most people say though, all it really needs is more memory, I can actually handle the screen res, but the memory just... well it just sucks! I remember the old days with WM2003 and previous WM products where you had that memory slider, I would love to have the slider now, I have almost 45megs free of storage and on a reset 11 megs of ram that goes down to about 6 or 7, with that slider I could give it another 20 megs and I wouldn't have to worry about PIE shutting down when I use Media Player! I look forward to the next version of the w that has the much needed memory.... ok I am done ranting!

There is a list of progams that work listed there too (put it this way, 98% do). On my 6700 I gained back over 6.5 mb from just compressing a few programs and apps like Verichat, Splashblog, etc. load faster, imo. No hit in RAM either.

Edit: actually, this might not help with the RAM part either, just save on storage space.

I've been a Windows PC Tech for many years. If WM is the only solution for a "smart phone" at any point, I will quit using "smart phones" I'll be damned if Mr. Gates owns passage way to everything I use